Adele McAlear

Death and Digital Legacy.

Alistair Croll

TL;DR.

Alistair works on too many things, including web monitoring, cloud computing, augmented reality, startups, music, and producing events. He’s too busy to keep track of all of those.

Andrew Culver

Chance. Take one. I’ll show how to go operational with it.

Andrew is a composer and the founder and CEO of iLiv. He first programmed I Ching chance operations on a PDP-11 at MIT in 1982, but he’d been using them analog for a while before that.

Annie Dussault

Comment construire un Quin-zhee!

Annie Dussault works for the McGill University Health Center in the telehealth department. She is also a scout which is how she was introduced to winter camping about 10 years ago.

Chris Arsenault

Entrepreneurial Capital

An entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, and looking for the next best entrepreneur to back!

Georges Duverger

Le poids de l’air

Having survived years of engineering school, Georges has witnessed the public and the private in human-computer interaction labs and inspiring start-ups. In a quest for fresh air, he left the old continent to craft Web applications into new territories.

Jeff Scott

Digital grammar

Jeff Scott, a consultant at NATIONAL Public Relations, focuses on technology and social media. His love of language, inherent geekiness and passion for writing drove him to make this presentation in the hopes of encouraging you to reconsider hitting the “Send” button.

Jonathan Ginter

“Life is a river” – how to pay attention to the proper flow of your life.

Jonathan Ginter has a profound interest in history, science and whether this present moment is more real than the next universe over.  He currently works in IT as a product manager and spends fair amounts of his spare time traveling with his wife.

Jonathan Karpfen

Where have all the users gone?  Putting the ‘Who’ and the ‘How’ back into the ‘What.’

Jonathan Karpfen is a market researcher and user experience designer.  A former member of the creative team at Airborne Mobile here in Montreal, he most recently was a manager at Ipsos Reid in Ottawa.  Jonathan spends his days dreaming of returning to live and work in La Belle Ville.  His presentation is inspired by failure.

Max Finder

What I’m learning in University

Max Finder is pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He collects VHS video tapes, enjoys salsa dancing and playing monopoly.

Michael Boyle

Counting is not analysis; Plus, how I learned to love the long tail

Michael Boyle is a partner at Nexalogy Environics and a long-time member of the Montreal web building and social media communities. An early blogger (mikel.org), Michael has worked as a consultant, e-business manager, online marketing lecturer (McGill), project and product manager, and started as the assistant editor of one of the first academic journals to go 100% electronic in 1994.

Sebastien Paquet

How to Become a Culture Hacker

Sébastien Paquet has spent the past decade playing with the idea that technology can be a catalyst for changing culture. He loves connecting the dots. He is never bored.

Syl Aucoin

An Ex-Hobo’s Basic Street Survival Guide.

Having spent over a year on the streets of Montreal as a teenager, and now living a “normal” successful life (including a Plateau apartment, an awesome job in Telehealth and even a pet), Syl offers an interesting insight on what to do (how not to die) if you end up on the streets.

John Brohan

Anonymous Medicine

John Brohan works in the intersection of health, computers and
cellphones, and is fascinated by the fact that MD5 hashing can be
used to store medical data anonymously.